Introduction : I'm not really a man, but I play one in movies --
Part one : James Stewart, your average bisexual --
"Hollywood didn't invent him" : mythology and "naturalness" --
"Boy's stuff" and the surrendering gaze : Mr. Smith goes to Washington --
Gender trouble at the OK corral : Destry rides again --
Bombing missions, station wagons, and bisexuality : Stewart postwar --
Hitchcock and biopics --
Remembering Stewart --
Part two : Jack Nicholson : performance anxiety and the act of masculinity --
Hollywood "epic" --
What exactly is "easy"? : Nicholson at BBS --
"A staging of the father" : Nicholson and Oedipal narrative in The last detail and Chinatown --
Masculinity and hallucination : The shining --
Nicholson as the system : the 1980s and early 1990s --
Part three : Clint Eastwood : male violence, performed, disavowed, unforgiven --
Men with no names --
Authority of one : the dirty harry films --
"That buried world" : Eastwood and sexuality in The beguiled and Tightrope --
Acting and "manliness" : White hunter, black heart --
"Deserve's got nothing to do with it," or men with no names II : Unforgiven.